Divine Sense Probe Prevention Function

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao was uncharacteristically silent, not joining in the others' horseplay.

He was carefully observing the three cultivators on the platform.

At first, he had only noticed their cultivation levels.

But gradually, he suddenly noticed that the Qi emanating from the three cultivators seemed somewhat different from his own and that of Jiang Youfu and the others.

Lin Xiao sensed it carefully.

Then he noticed that the Spiritual Qi on all three cultivators seemed to have strong elemental characteristics.

For example, there was the cultivator who had handed Niu Xiaoxue an umbrella earlier and said his surname was Feng.

He gave off a strong presence of the water element all over his body, along with some earth and wood.

Lin Xiao wondered if the cultivator surnamed Feng might have a Water, Wood, and Earth Three Spirit Root.

He really wanted to ask him directly and find out.

Unfortunately, there was no good opportunity.

Besides, asking about someone else's Spirit Roots might not be considered very friendly.

But there was something Lin Xiao didn't understand.

Why was it that he and everyone in the Lingxian Sect were also Qi Refining cultivators, yet none of them had this elemental presence, while these cultivators were surrounded by it?

Lin Xiao suddenly thought of the aptitudes displayed in everyone's profiles in the system.

That was it.

The aptitudes shown for all of them weren't Spirit Roots or anything of the sort.

Instead, they seemed to be evaluations based on something like each person's comprehension.

Moreover, the mental cultivation method they practiced, the "Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction," made no mention of concepts related to the Five Elements Spirit Roots.

Lin Xiao silently summoned the system in his mind.

He had expected the system not to appear, but to his surprise, it displayed an explanation.

[Explanation: This system is the Myriad Realms System, formed from the accumulated wisdom of the myriad realms. The Cultivation Methods it provides can naturally embrace all rivers as the sea does.]

Could it be...

There are actually many ways and paths to cultivation.

And cultivating based on Spirit Roots is only one of them?

Lin Xiao thought he might have stumbled upon the truth.

The Shangyang Sect's disciple recruitment was said to last three days.

Lin Xiao and the other six watched all morning, but only saw five children with Spirit Roots, Niu Xiaoxue included.

And three of them had four or five Spirit Roots.

The group found it very boring and didn't go back to watch that afternoon.

They also decided not to go for the next two days.

They had seen it for themselves and watched the stone light up. It didn't seem all that special.

It wasn't even as interesting as the occasional house that suddenly popped up in their sect.

The three cultivators wore matching clothes that were obviously their sect's uniforms, but they didn't look as splendid as the uniforms of the Lingxian Sect, a small sect.

So for the next two days, everyone stayed put in the sect and cultivated.

Brother Xiao had said that the three people on the platform only seemed to be at the third or fourth layer of Qi Refining.

As long as they made good use of their time and reached the third or fourth layer of Qi Refining as soon as possible, they would be on par with the disciples of a major sect!

Although there was a bit of a problem with that logic, neither Lin Xiao nor Sun Yigao corrected them.

More than ten households in Xiushui Village had also taken their children to town to participate in the Shangyang Sect's disciple recruitment.

Yet not a single one had been selected.

As a result, everyone was even less inclined to believe that Lin Xiao and the others were truly cultivating on the mountain.

The children from more than ten households in the village lacked the aptitude to cultivate, so why should these boys, who had grown up together, teasing cats and dogs and learning nothing useful in the village, all be able to cultivate?

Impossible!

They had to be playing in the mud on the mountain.

On the afternoon of the third day, the Shangyang Sect's grand disciple recruitment was finally drawing to a close.

Many people from Xiushui Village went to watch again that day.

They had previously heard an official say that, in the end, the immortals would use immortal techniques to make the recruited disciples fly up to an immortal ship and then depart through the air.

Everyone was eager to see the so-called immortal techniques and immortal ship with their own eyes.

The people of the Lingxian Sect, however, seemed to have suddenly lost their curiosity. They all said they didn't want to go and only wanted to stay in the cultivation room and cultivate diligently.

Lin Xiao still planned to take a look.

Seeing that no one else wanted to go, Lin Xiao went alone.

When he arrived outside Emerald Peak Town, Lin Xiao saw a group of people in fluttering robes standing by the town gate from a distance.

Beside them, the selected disciples were saying goodbye one by one to the relatives and friends who had come to see them off.

Among the people in robes was a man who looked to be in his forties, whose robes were a little different.

His robes seemed darker and were much finer than those around him, which had nothing distinctive about them apart from their color.

The Qi emanating from him was very strong, but Lin Xiao couldn't sense his cultivation level.

Presumably, it was far higher than his own.

Lin Xiao approached among the crowd as he observed them.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man in the finer robes turned to look in Lin Xiao's direction.

[Ding-detected a high-level cultivator's Divine Sense sweeping over the host. The system has automatically activated the Divine Sense Probe Prevention Function. This is a permanent passive function and will activate automatically whenever Divine Sense probes the host. To turn it off, the host may do so on the personal page.]

Lin Xiao opened his personal panel and, sure enough, saw an additional entry at the very bottom of the original information: [Probe Prevention Function (activated)].

Heh, this function is a must-have for anyone following the path of keeping a low profile!

Lin Xiao felt that he had gained another layer of protection on his path of cultivation.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man's personal disciple, standing beside him, saw him suddenly look toward the spectators not far away and asked in confusion:

"Master, what's wrong?"

The middle-aged man frowned in puzzlement. Just now, he had distinctly sensed a Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivator over in that direction... and his Qi had been rather peculiar.

Unexpectedly, that Qi had suddenly vanished as if it had never appeared.

But if he really was only a Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivator, he couldn't possibly have escaped his Divine Sense probe in such a short time...

The middle-aged man shook his head at his personal disciple and said:

"It's nothing. Perhaps I've been too tired lately."

Then he raised a hand and waved, tossing a moderately sized spirit ship into the air.

Looking up, they saw that the spirit ship had carved beams and painted rafters and was exquisitely crafted.

Cries of surprise immediately rang out through the crowd!

Immediately afterward, someone prostrated themselves on the ground and began kowtowing to the middle-aged man, muttering phrases like "Immortals, bless us" over and over.

Seeing this, the people around them immediately followed their example.

Before long, more than half the people at the once-noisy town gate had dropped to their knees in a rush.

The scene fell quiet for a time, with only faint murmurs asking for the immortals' blessings.

Standing straight among the people kneeling all over the ground, Lin Xiao was somewhat conspicuous.

Fortunately, he wasn't the only one who hadn't knelt.

Quite a few scholars hadn't knelt either, instead making deep bows toward the middle-aged man.

Lin Xiao followed their example and bowed in the direction of the Shangyang Sect cultivators.

The spirit ship floating in midair wasn't particularly large. The fifteen people from the Shangyang Sect and the twenty disciples they had newly recruited filled the entire ship as soon as they boarded.